60 Leith Walk, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. 1 related planning application.
60 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- seventh-spandrel-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Address
- 60 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5HB
- OS grid reference
- NT 268 758
- Coordinates
- 55.96972, -3.1733
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
62 Leith Walk is a pair of early 19th century terraced houses, each two stories tall and featuring six bays, with a basement. The houses are constructed from cream sandstone with polished ashlar, while the rear and sides are made of coursed and squared ashlar. There is a band course above the basement, a band cill course at the ground floor, another band course above the ground floor, and a dentilled eaves cornice with a leaded blocking course. The ground floor has architraved windows.
The front elevation is symmetrical, with round-arched doorways featuring Ionic doorpieces in the inner bays, accessed by steps and topped with semi-circular plate glass fanlights and panelled doors. Above these doorways, there are single windows on the first floor, and each of the remaining bays also has single windows. The roof features three rectangular dormers with piended roofs.
The rear elevation has four bays, with a central wallhead raised in a gable that includes an apex stack and single windows. The southwest elevation is three bays wide, gabled with an apex stack and a band course above the ground floor, featuring single windows in each bay, most of which are blocked.
The windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with black slate, featuring two apex stacks and a mutual stack.
The interior was not seen in 1993. The property includes a low rubble boundary wall at the front, some original iron spearhead railings, and two cast-iron lamp standards at No 60.
Local climate
60 Leith Walk, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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